HCECG 20th Annual Conference – March 20/21, 2014
Embracing Change: Balancing Innovation and Our Humanity
(DRAFT as of 2-9-14)
March 20, 2014
8:30 Welcome
8:45 From Marcus Welby to the iPatient: Innovation and Myth in Modern
Medicine
David Magnus, Ph.D.
Director, Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics
10:00 The Impact of the Electronic Medical Record in a Time of Personalized
Medicine
Panelists:
Julie Hollberg, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer,
Emory Healthcare
Robin Miller MD, Oncologist
Debra Carlton, MD, Associate Medical Director for Informatics,
Kaiser Permanente
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James McCoy, MD, Professor of Clinical Surgery, Morehouse School of
Medicine
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11:15 Break
11:30 The Future of the Patient Provider Relationship: Communication and
Complexity in the Acute Care Environment
Panelists:
Craig Coopersmith, MD, Associate Director, Emory Critical Care
Center, and Professor of Surgery
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Kristin L. Hiscutt, Esq. Bendin Sumrall & Ladner
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Adam Malone, Malone Law Office
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Susan Grant, MS, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, Chief Nursing Executive,
Emory Healthcare
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1:00 Lunch
2:00 The Future of the Patient Provider Relationship Beyond the Acute Care
Environments: Continuity, Access, Scope of Practice, and Telemedicine
(telemedicine; role of urgent care; role of APRN’s, PA’s; “rural” medicine)
Breakouts & summary panel – speakers to date:
Chip Strosnider, Director of Business Technology, Kaiser Permanente
Georgia
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Mary Lea Quinn, LCSW
Utilization Review Manager at Southeastrans, Inc.
Chair of the National Aging in Place Council
4:00 20th Anniversary Celebration Reception
5:00 Word Streams:
Narrative, Dialogue, and Scenes from Wit
Margaret Edson, Playwright
March 21, 2014
9:00 A Bioethics Retrospective and Look Ahead
Where have we been in Bioethics and our Healthcare Ethics Consortium?
What has been done well in healthcare ethics? Where are we going?
speakers to date:
David Magnus, PhD, Director, Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics
Paul Root Wolpe, PhD, Director, Emory Center for Ethics
10:15 Enduring Questions (possible breakouts)
1) How should we approach decisions re extending life and end of life care?
Tammie Quest, MD, Director, Emory Center for Palliative Care
April Dworetz, MD, Assistant Professor, Neonatology, Emory
2) Mental Health issues: Access, changes in delivery of mental/behavioral
health care
Eve H. Byrd, MSN, MPH, APRN-BC, Executive Director, Fuqua Center
for Late-Life Depression
3) Managing expectations and involving patients
Neal Dickert, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Cardiology
Robin Miller, MD, Oncologist
4) Innovation and the Role of Religion
Cory Labrecque, PhD , Schinazi Junior Scholar in Bioethics and
Religious Thought, Emory Center for Ethics
Woody Spackman, MDiv. Former Executive Director, Emory Center for
Pastoral Services
12:00 Lunch
*** Poster session: Healthcare Ethics Leadership Academy Poster Session
1:00 Neuroscience, Neuroenhancement, and the Future of Bioethics
John Banja, PhD, Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine,
EmorySteven Garlow, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory
Paul Root Wolpe, PhD, Director, Emory Center for Ethics
2:30 Operationalizing Ethics in Practice & Current Cases
Innovation in ethics and preventive ethics
What would your institution do in these current cases
Mary Ann Bowman Beil, MTS, Vice President, Ethics Officer, Memorial
Medical Center
Kathy Kinlaw,MDiv, Associate Director, Emory Center for Ethics
4:00 Adjourn